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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Three Boys and a Bad Kitty

Right, that title could be taken any number of ways....but, no, it is not an adult film...

I just returned home from conducting a two-day training at Indiana University of PA. The 25 or so faculty were incredibly refreshing! They were enthusiastic, kind, funny, and FUN!!!!! Watermelon launching, anvil attacks, and a Princess sim-crashing moon bounce were all mixed into creating immersive interactive content.

The NMC studio session is going GREAT, as well. The students are engaging, refreshing, funny, and FUN!!!!

It must be a disease....virtual "students" (with PhDs) and real "students" (with PhDs) all engaging an environment at various levels....and being incredibly AWESOME!

Many thanks to the amazing Komputer Merlin (RL Lloyd Oynet) and his lovely wife, the Goddess Estelle, for their warm hospitality (and the world's MOST incredible wine, book, and cottage collections). Many thanks to DrPartridge Allen (RL Al Partridge), his hilarious wife, Mary, and their wicked cool daughter, Lilly, for entertaining me with hilarious stories about STD costumes, steak, and peas. Honest to Pete, that was the best dinner party I have been to in a long time!!!

So....

I returned home after a daunting 6 hour journey through Eastern PA construction (if they would just build the damn roads RIGHT in the first place - - we wouldn't have to fix them every 4 years). The boys....oh, dear....well, it is no wonder I don't travel much.

My husband seems to think that cheese is as good a meal as any...so the first thing DD asked for was food..."Mommy, can you feed me?" Now, The Boss-Man assures me that he did, in fact, feed them hot dogs and cereal, and gave them milk with their cookies, all 50000 that they ate, so, they got wheat AND dairy....

The boys - all three of them - were shirtless. This is common with the boss, but, generally speaking, we like to dress the children, ya know, just in case they have to go outside to fetch a wayward power ranger. The Boss says that they didn't want to wear shirts and that they were practicing being REAL men....confirmation from the Mother-in-Law suggests that they did, in fact, have shirts on when she left an hour before...so, the manly hour must be after 7 but before 9 (or when I walked in and said, ummmmm, clothing?? I was only gone TWO days; certainly the laundry isn't ALL dirty?)

And then there is the Bad Kitty...and her brothers, Bert and Mikey, who were circling the food dish and meowing as if they had been starved for a month. The cat dshes (all 16 of them) were all on the floor, so that proves that - at some point - they were given food. Evidently, they invited friends because the math doesn't work out (3 cats - wet food twice a day...I fed them before I left Sunday, so that SHOULD equal 9 dishes - MAYBE 12 if he had fed them tonight...but he admits that he forgot...which is incredible to believe since you can't walk in our kitchen without the beck and call of the BK...). Of course, the Iams dispenser was full, but the Princess Bad Kitty prefers wet to anything she has to crunch upon....

and then there are the dishes....I got them paper products because Moms know that boys and bad kitties don't do dishes...and, well, the pack stayed closed, but my sink was full...of cereal bowls and cheese plates....

I would like some tools from SL....a teleporter and the ability to send back dirty dishes. Oh, and mute....